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Al-Ma’sara’s people held their weekly demonstration against the Apartheid Wall and building of settlements, joined by a group of internationals and Israelis. The demonstration began in the early afternoon, leaving from the middle of the village after Friday prayers. Hundreds of people marched through the village toward the Wall chanting slogans for national unity and […]

After praying on their land, the people of Ni’lin marched through the olive groves on the edge of the village toward the Wall. Upon reaching the ledge overlooking the fence and military road, youth showered stones on a waiting jeep. Occupation forces fired barrages of tear gas from jeep-mounted launchers, but failed to break the […]

Last week, soldiers closed the village of al Ma’sara the night prior to the weekly demonstration. Soldiers threatened coordinators last week, following one of the largest demonstrations of the summer, that if protests were not stopped Occupation forces would begin closing the village. This move, however, did little to deter and the following day residents […]

***image2***The Friday demonstration in Ni’lin was held this week without injury to participants, although Occupation forces employ tear gas and chemical spray to keep people away from the Wall. Special forces were again spotted at the demonstration. In Ni’lin, residents prayed on their land without incident before marching toward the Wall. Villagers and their supporters […]

Occupation forces struck Bil’in and Jayyus this week, arresting and abducting 13 more people in the latest series of arrests. In Bil’in, the arrest campaign that began late June continued, when early Monday morning Occupation forces invaded the village. At 3:00 AM, masked soldiers raided several homes, where they arrested 7 people. Two members of […]

***image2***This Friday, Occupation forces rained tear gas and foul-smelling chemicals on protestors in the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin during the weekly march. In Barta’, a demonstration was organized at the terminal to protest the conditions imposed on the people there. The people of Bil’in marched through the village this Friday, as they have done […]

***image1***Protests in Ni’lin and Bil’in were met with volleys of tear gas and sound bombs as they approached the Wall this past Friday. In Ni’lin, demonstrators marched to the Wall, where clashes occurred between youth and soldiers for several hours. Villagers marked the anniversary of the deaths of the first two martyrs, Ahmed Mousa and […]